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Nov. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Oh no, it can't be.
It can't be, ladies and gentlemen.
Crude oil prices.
They reached a record high this morning and now they're falling.
Oh no, not on Thanksgiving.
This can't be.
Why, do you know what this means?
It means that the crisis that we need with high oil prices and the $4 gasoline that we need to deal with high oil prices so we can eventually drill for our own will not happen.
Oh no, they must be listening to this program, folks.
The speculators in OPEC must be listening to this program, and they know that we have the ability to create a crisis and they don't want the crisis to hit New Hampshire and Maine hardest hit by this, ladies and gentlemen.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, and our pre-Thanksgiving show, an annual event here at the EIB Network.
And today we're doing Open Line Wednesday on Friday when we go to the phones.
Whatever you wish to talk about is what we will talk about.
That's the rule on Friday.
I give myself one day a week where I will gladly shelve the rule that says we only talk about it if I care about it and instead let you determine what that is.
So the number again, 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Major breakthrough in stem cell research, which could eliminate the need for human embryos, was hailed as a means of ending an ethical dilemma.
But researchers who want the money from embryo supporters cautioned against abandoning the study of embryonic stem cells.
Embryonic stem cell research holds the promise despite no evidence and no success in the research holds the promise of curing diseases and even leading to organ transplants formed in Petri dishes.
But it is highly controversial because viable embryos must be destroyed to extract the stem cells and because cloning is often involved.
Now this ought to, you know, it's like this business with the UN and their inflated reports.
What are you guys laughing at in there?
You know, I want, you're starting, you're starting to distract me here because when I went out there after the break, the top of the hour, they said, boy, you sound tired today.
You know, and I know they're just jamming me because the North Carolina mistress yesterday said I sounded tired.
I know my voice sounds a little hoarse.
Late nights.
No, actually, the kids were not around all day.
They got hauled up to Orlando to see their mother's sister, and they didn't get back till 9.30 or 10 less.
I saw them when they got back, but they were tired and beat.
So, no, I haven't had to yell at them.
I don't yell at the kids anyway.
But why do anybody think I yell at kids?
Kids see me and automatically behave.
I just have that effect.
They have such respect, profound respect that they behave.
Well, now it's not fear.
Speaking of respect, I can't get any.
But remember, it's like the UN and these inflated figures on worldwide AIDS cases, particularly here in the United States.
And it was all about getting money for research.
And, of course, promoting a leftist agenda at the same time, because promoting big government to do the research and extort the money from people.
And so now the UN has been accused of, hey, did you purposely inflate them?
No, we didn't purposely inflate them.
Okay, so then you're incompetent.
So there's no way for the UN to win.
Either they purposely inflated the numbers or they didn't.
If they did, then they're cheats.
If they didn't inflate the numbers, and it just happened, then they're incompetent.
And yet these are the people that tell us they want to run global warming and fix the world and save it.
Now the same thing's happening with this stem cell research.
This breakthrough, which could eliminate the need for human embryos, has frightened researchers into the embryonic stem cell program because they need the money.
They want the money to continue their research.
They want the money, period.
The research is simply a scam.
And so they're cautioning against abandoning the study of embryonic stem cells, which means truth and fact and good news really have no impact on people.
And believe me, embryonic stem cells is a political issue, and they have made it a political issue in campaigns, as you know.
It is a left-right issue, just as global warming is.
I don't know how this made it into the news today.
Fewer people signed up for jobless benefits last week.
An encouraging sign that most companies are not resorting to large-scale layoffs as the country copes with continuing problems in the housing and credit markets.
The Labor Department reported today that new applications filed for unemployment insurance dropped by $11,000 to $330,000 for the week ending November 17th.
It's the lowest level since the beginning of November.
The 330,000 level of claims was in line with economists' forecasts.
We continue to believe that most statistical and anecdotal evidence continue to point to a relatively healthy labor market, said Omar Sharif, an economist at RBS Greenwich Capital.
Wow, Omar Sharif has a job.
His acting career must have gone south.
Now he's an economist.
So we're on the verge of a recession.
CNBC, recession, are we there yet?
It's been the focus of theirs all morning.
But yet, rising prices, all these things, we would expect layoffs.
The experts would expect layoffs.
But it's not happening.
Instead, it's an encouraging sign most companies aren't resorting to large-scale layoffs as the country copes with continuing problems in the housing and credit markets.
These are people who are simply oriented toward the pessimistic and the doom and gloom, because that's how they define news in general and it's how they continue to carry forth their narrative.
And good old Jack Murtha is back.
The House Democrats point man in the war funding showdown where the White House yesterday dismissed U.S. military gains in Iraq.
He vowed to tighten the purse strings until President Bush accepts a pull-out plan.
Look at all the people that have been displaced, all the lost oil production, unemployment, all those type of things, said Murthy.
We can't win militarily in the middle of winning militarily.
Jack Murtha says we can't win militarily.
He conceded that violence was down dramatically and some normalcy restored, but he said U.S. victory remains unattainable as long as Baghdad fails to pass national reconciliation laws.
To change the political law doesn't mean to me you need military stability.
Or it doesn't seem to me you need the military stability, Murtha told reporters on Capitol Hill.
So what he's saying is that there's a corrupt government over there, and they won't pass conciliation laws so we get along with each other.
You don't need military stability to do that.
So change the picture.
Change the focus.
Whenever the good news is good, find some area where you can make it sound like it's bad.
This is the nature of today's Democrat Party.
We can't win militarily.
The Democrats say in their latest tussle with the White House on the Iraq war, that the Pentagon is using scare tactics to try to goad Congress into passing another war spending bill.
David Obie and Murtha say they're not going to budge.
Obie is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
They both said they won't support more money for the war this year until President Bush accepts a timetable for troop withdrawals.
The Politico reporting today that the military plans to furlough civilian employees and cut all Army and Marine Corps bases to barebones operations early next year because of a funding impasse with Congress.
This according to a memo provided to Politico.com.
Democrat leaders accused the Bush administration of using scare tactics, said they'll not be strong-armed into giving the White House a blank check on the war.
Despite all this, this issue will cease to be front page sometime in the first quarter of next year.
Hillary Clinton's lead in the race for the Democrat presidential nomination shrinking in New Hampshire.
23-point lead over her closest rival in September has decreased to 14 points in a new CNN WMUR New Hampshire presidential primary poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire.
When asked who they would support if the primary were held today, 36% said Clinton.
22% supported Barack Obama.
Brief timeout, folks, we'll be back.
Your phone calls and other things straight ahead.
And here we go from the thankful news stack.
The more money a married woman earns, the less housework she will do, regardless how much her spouse earns, according to a new study.
A researcher at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst found that big paychecks equal less cooking and cleaning in a study of 918 women in double-income families.
Married women who made $40,000 or more a year spent nearly one hour less on housework per day than women who earned $10,000 or less, according to these findings.
Up to this point, people have thought the important thing was how much money a woman makes compared to her husband.
The only thing that matters is how much money she earns, said Sanjeev Gupta.
You know, there are a lot of guptas popping up out there in surveys and studies and in the media.
Nothing wrong with it.
I'm just making an observation.
Up to this point, people have thought the important thing was how much money a woman made compared to her husband.
That's not the point.
It's how much money she makes.
The study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family showed that for every $7,500 in annual income a married woman earned, she performed one hour less of housework each week.
The findings suggest, since the husband's earnings have no effect on this amount of housework a woman does that's not true.
That can't possibly be true.
Since the husband's earnings had no effect on the amount of housework a woman does, trust me, I'm an expert here.
That is not true.
The findings suggest that women are using their own money to reduce their domestic workloads, such as ordering takeout food instead of cooking and hiring cleaners instead of doing it themselves, Gupta said.
The negative side of it is that it shows just how divided households remain by gender.
It emphasized how much housework is the woman's responsibility.
So, despite the fact that we apparently have some really good news here, we have to end the story by saying don't feel happy about it.
Don't feel good about it because it's still not right out there.
It still isn't fair because housework is still separated by gender.
That's just a failing of modern feminism, as much of modern feminism has failed.
All right, to the phones to Hopewell, New York.
Brian, you're next.
Nice to have you, sir.
Rush, good morning.
Thank you for having me on.
You bet.
Hey, your assessment of optimism is right on target.
I'm a motivational expert and author, and I can tell you with no doubt that people's attitude totally affects what their success or failure in life is.
And one of these things on Thanksgiving is that people don't really come to terms with how much we have in this country and how what the level of abundance is.
And as such, we're so comfortable that people have the luxury of finding things to be upset about.
When if you compare our country to any place else in the world, we have such an easy time here.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
You have nailed it.
Abundance.
It is a word not used enough in describing this country and people's individual lives.
And not just material things.
An abundance of freedom, an abundance of opportunity, an abundance of things to be thankful for.
But if there's no consciousness of this, then there can't be any gratitude.
No, that's so true.
And instead of people being thankful for the abundance, they focus on what's lacking in their lives.
Right.
And the reason they do that, because they've got so much time.
They've got so much time to think about themselves.
Oh, woe is me, some of them do.
Right.
And the reason they have so much time is because they have such an abundance that they don't even appreciate.
I know.
You're exactly right.
I'm glad that you called and confirmed what I said.
Yeah, and I think one of the important things, you know, you have this show about Thanksgiving is that this should be a touchstone to remind people that really every day they need to have an attitude of gratitude and really be thankful of all the things in their lives that they're blessed with.
And there really is nothing that's too small.
Even just waking up in the morning, because there are some people that don't.
People are going to hear you say, oh, come on, get real.
I'm not a Miss America pageant contestant.
What do you mean, be thankful for getting up in this country?
Come on, that's so filled with sob.
People have, they don't want to appear to be sappy.
So you don't have to articulate your thankfulness.
Just feel it.
Right.
You don't have to tell anybody.
It's just going through a mental checklist every morning of all the things that are good in your life.
Let me ask you a quick question here before I have to let you go.
You said you're a motivational expert.
Yes.
One of the things I've discovered, I just want you to confirm, because I know this is right.
Most people, for whatever reason, you may know, given that you're a trained professional here, most people are predisposed to pessimism and thinking the worst is going to happen.
Oh, absolutely.
And they get this way for a number of reasons.
First of all, the examples they see growing up, the examples in the drive-by media, and just talking to all their friends and acquaintances.
And because of their negative orientation, it puts a damper on the amount of success that they're going to achieve.
I remember when I was growing up in this business, and I would ask people who had succeeded in it and who hadn't succeeded in it what they thought I should do.
And I finally stopped talking to the people who had failed because I figured, what do they got to teach me?
Because they were negatives.
Oh, don't go into that business.
It's going to eat you up.
It'll spit you out.
A bunch of charlatans in this business, you don't want to mess with it.
You can't make it.
And of course, I've always, since having learned that, I've always counseled people, whatever it is they want to do.
Talk to people who have succeeded in that field or are successful in it for your motivation.
Right.
That's also right on target.
If you want to do something, talk to someone who's already done it.
If you want to become a pilot, you talk to a Chuck Jaeger.
You know, you talk to someone who's the best in your field, who's done exactly what you want, and they have something to teach you.
It's not the people that are naysayers that fail that tell you all the reasons why something won't work.
And they're out there in great numbers because the success of others threatens individuals.
And so, yeah, it's a shame.
It's a shame more people are not oriented to the optimistic.
But I appreciate your call.
Thank you.
We're working on that here, by the way.
I think we've had profound impact on people's lives in that regard, by the way.
Nicholas, Fort Wayne, Indiana, thank you for waiting, sir.
You're next.
Hey, Rush, thanks for checking my call.
Ultra Mega Hoosier Dittos from Flyover Country.
Thank you.
I'd just like to ask you what you think about the Indianapolis Colts and what they need to do to turn their season around.
I know they're not on the brinks yet, but with the offense sputtering the way it is, it's sure heading their path.
It's just a minor blip in the road.
I think you're going to get fixed tomorrow night playing the Atlanta Falcons.
Yeah, most definitely.
And with Harrison being out, it's really cut down our offensive production.
Well, you know something?
I think that's you better not look.
That's a crutch.
You still have Reggie Wayne.
You got Dallas Clark.
You got Joseph Adai.
So three of your four weapons you still got.
Any team, championship team's got to be able to withstand the loss for a couple, three weeks of one player.
If the Colts need Marvin Harrison, if they can't put anybody in to sub for him, if they can't get by without Marvin Harrison for a short period of time, then there's trouble.
I think people are looking at that as a crutch.
I agree.
I think as long as we have number 18 back there, our quarterback, we'll be in good shape.
Yeah, it's just, you know, you're just reacting.
What's happening to the Colts is what happens to every team now and again.
It just hasn't happened to them in years.
You know, this team is getting older.
This is something that happens.
I think one of the biggest problems you have is losing Dwight Freeney, to tell you the truth.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
He definitely could put pressure on the quarterback.
But, you know, like you said, with the Falcons tomorrow night, I think we'll get this thing turned around.
Yeah, because the offensive line is going to manage some time, and that's what every quarterback needs.
Look at Brady.
I think Tom Brady is one of the most, I guess he's starting to get some appreciation this year.
But Tom Brady is always left out of these great quarterback discussions with Marino and Peyton Manning and some of the others.
And the guy is just simply a winner.
And he works in a system up there that Bill Belichick runs.
And so they don't have a whole lot of focus on individuals on that team from inside the team.
But I'll tell you, the season the Patriots are having is unbelievable.
Maybe the single best team season long in the NFL's history, single season team.
It has to be the Patriots.
Especially if they go undefeated, they're mauling people.
You know, a lot of people are saying, well, they're running up to score.
Rush is not fair.
Through the first three quarters, everything's fair game.
If you go into the fourth quarter and you're leading a hapless team like the Dolphins, 42-0, and you put Brady back in when the backup quarterback throws an interception, then you can maybe say, okay, they're running up the score.
Belichick said, no, they got, actually, wasn't.
It was 48-21.
In the fourth quarter lead, 21 points is not enough.
I need to make sure we win the game.
Belichick is simply laying waste to the league, singling him out for cheating.
Spygate, $500,000 fine.
He's saying, okay, league, take this.
Sort of fun to watch in a way.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh, living legend, national treasure and profit serving humanity behind this, the Golden EIB microphone.
It's our pre-Thanksgiving Day show.
One more thing.
This is an interesting thought here.
We're talking about optimism and pessimism and gratitude, thankfulness for all that we have as Americans.
However imperfect society may be, we should measure it against the cruelty and deprivation of the actual past, not the harmony and the affluence of an imagined future.
One of the reasons that people who are so mired in pessimism do so is because they're sitting around thinking how much better it could be, how much better it will be if, say, Hillary Clinton's elected, rather than looking backward, measuring what happened in the past.
It's what I try to do in the first hour.
I don't care what you think of your circumstances today.
They're better today than they were five years ago.
They're better today than they were 10 years ago.
They're better than they were 20 years ago.
No matter how far back in history you go, and 10 years from now, things are going to be better in this country than they are today.
There's a caveat.
I mean, I genuinely believe, you know, people talking about the crisis of oil, the price of gasoline.
It is what it is.
But I'm going to tell you something, folks, if Mrs. Clinton gets elected and she gets a Democrat Congress, then this country faces a tremendous amount of pressure because those people want to rebuild it.
This is the last gasp of the 60s anti-war generation to grab hold this country, to embrace it, put their arms around it and bend it and shape it and flake it and form it into their image, which is one of socialism.
There's no cushy way to put it.
And that is socialism, central statism, an expanding government that's running health care and everything else, that can kill temporarily the progress in the golden goose that is the United States of America.
Back to the phones, Don, in Lake Ronkonkama, New York.
Nice to have you with us there.
Hello.
Hey, Megan, it is Rush.
It's great to talk to you again.
Thank you.
And did you know that Russia is one of my favorite top 10 talk radio show host names?
Yeah, I'm happy to be in your list.
You're right up on the top from our rush.
Thank you.
Listen, with Hillary Clinton counting the virtues of socialism, like you just said, as though it's new, your first Thanksgiving story is going to shed some light on the folly of that concept, especially with your new listeners who haven't heard it before.
That's right.
Exactly.
Your ever-expanding audience, my friend.
It is.
And that Thanksgiving story, it's right out of my second book.
See, I told you so.
And we do that in the last half hour of every show on the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving.
And it is so at odds with what all of us were taught in school.
And I'll just give you a little heads up.
If you were like me, what we were taught in school was that the pilgrims came over and they were just overwhelmed.
They were swamped.
They had no clue where they were.
They had no clue how to feed themselves.
They had no clue how to protect themselves.
They had no idea how to stay warm.
They had no idea how to do anything.
They were just typical, dumb white people fleeing some other place they couldn't manage to live in.
And then out of the woods came the wonderful Indians who, with great compassion, they were at one with the land.
They were at one with the spirits.
And they saw these incompetent, dupe white people dressed up in these odd, stupid black and white hats and suits.
And they befriended us.
And they taught us how to plant corn and how to catch beasts and how to skin beavers to stay warm.
And Thanksgiving is where we give thanks to the Indians.
And that is the exact opposite of what I leave out.
Well, I was going to get there, but you just, you know, this is why, folks, I do not allow the staff to have their own microphones.
Everybody, despite 20 years of at the top of the heap, everybody else thinks they can do this better than I do it.
North Carolina mistresses, you shouldn't be talking about that.
Why don't you bring this up?
I can't believe you.
You didn't talk about this.
You've had it for two days.
Thanksgiving.
I am not going to be put in a bad mood by you, snurdily.
Of course, the rest of the Thanksgiving story is that after the Indians saved the white people, who after all did what?
Brought syphilis, sexually transmitted diseases, gongoria, as my high school health teacher pronounced it, racism, bigotry, homophobia, all these things.
Then what do we do to show our gratitude?
Then we had the guts to swindle them out of Manhattan for 24 bucks, and then we stole their land and we stole their horses and we moved them away from the various things that they had used religiously, something like peyote and so forth.
And they got sick.
And so then we put them in reservations.
And then after a while, we felt guilty and let them run all the casinos outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
Well, that is not the true story of Thanksgiving.
By the way, I was reading a book on Theodore Roosevelt recently.
Now, I mentioned this at the top of the show, but I want to go through this again.
How many of you believe that we actually swindled Indians when we bought Manhattan from them?
I've always thought that until I read this book.
It's called Commissioner Roosevelt, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City Police, 1895 to 1897, by H. Paul Jeffers.
And here is the relevant paragraph.
A persuasive case can be made that the city of New York began with a swindle.
For generations, school children have been taught that a slick trick was played on unsuspecting Indians by the director of the Dutch West India Company.
How do you pronounce his name?
Minuet?
Peter Minuet.
In 1626, he purchased the island, what was called Manahattan then, for 60 guilders worth of trinkets, about $24.
What Minuet did not know at the time, however, was that his masterful real estate deal had been struck with the Canarsie tribe.
They didn't own Manhattan.
The Canarsie tribe were residents of Long Island.
They held no title to the land they sold to the Dutch.
In due course, the intruders from Amsterdam, the Dutch, who thought they had pulled a sharp one on the locals, were forced into renegotiating a second more costly deal with the true landlords.
So it was the Indians that pulled the real estate scam when they sold Manhattan because the ones that sold it didn't own it.
We got taken.
They had to straighten all of this out on this type of show on this day.
Bill in Darby, Montana.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, am I on?
How are you, sir?
Yes, you're on.
Oh, make a big sale dos to you.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
Listen, I wanted to tell you, you were talking about global warming and drawn through the fuel from corn and stuff.
It's costing me more to feed my milk cow now because of stuff like that.
And my milk is going up.
Prices go up.
People don't understand.
You were talking the other day about understanding economics.
It's just simply a matter of there is alternative uses for resources.
That's simple.
Well, they're going to turn corn into gas then.
Let me tell you more.
Let me like Al.
No, no, let me tell you.
I know.
All of that's true economically, but the reason it happens is more interesting to me.
We've got to go to ethanol.
Why ethanol?
Well, because we're polluting the planet.
We're destroying the planet.
Global warming, Americans, SUVs, greenhouse gases.
So we've got to go to ethanol, which will reduce the actual amount of oil, theoretically, and decrease the amount of greenhouse gases.
And of course, the American people have been swamped with all of this environmentalist wacko hoax fraudulent data for years.
And so everybody wants to matter and everybody wants to make a difference and everybody wants to think they're contributing to the betterment of their society and their world.
And so they go for it.
Underneath the scene, underneath the surface, you have an alignment between the corn growers and politicians to sell more corn, to grow more corn and so forth.
And the dirty little secret is, is that what corn's primary use is, that's for food, not just here but around the world, skyrockets because there ends up being less of it because it's being taken and used for ethanol, which as it turns out is a scam in itself.
It's not that relevant.
It doesn't make that big a difference, but it doesn't matter because people feel good.
It's like when they go out and buy a hybrid.
You know, it really doesn't matter a heel of beans other than you're driving around in the ugliest looking cars you could ever imagine.
But when you're driving around in your ugly little hybrid, you feel like you matter.
It's like wearing a red ribbon for AIDS or a blue ribbon for whatever other disease.
You put that on and it tells people, I care.
I'm better than you because you're not driving this car.
Look at the car.
It's all about people want to feel good.
Most people don't feel like they're relevant.
Everybody wants their life to have meaning.
And so these slick politicians on the left know how to tap into that desire of people and use them for their own specific political purposes.
And in the meantime, the economic impact that results from it ends up showing that the original idea was worthless, it was fraudulent, and it was bad.
And something you would think after all these years of failed liberal policies, Social Security to Medicare, to Medicaid, to the war on poverty, you would think at some point that people would say, you know what?
It doesn't work.
The unintended consequences of all of these things and the never accounted for spending and cost.
But people resort more to their feelings and their desires to be relevant and matter than they do their thoughts on things like this.
But the tide's turning on all of it.
You wait and see.
Where are we going next, Snurdley?
You don't have a call, Highlight.
Okay, good.
Eddie in Dayton, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
Damn, fine and dandy.
How are you?
I'm all right.
I'm a registered Republican, but I take a little easy.
If somebody starts out telling me that they are a registered Republican, I have my doubts.
Registered Republicans do not have to announce it.
It's like if somebody tells you they're not a whore, they're a whore.
All right, if you say so.
I didn't accuse you of being.
I'm registered Republican.
You there?
Yeah, I'm here.
Okay, you're a registered Republican.
But anyway, what my point was, he was talking about gas and the prices earlier, and I listened to you every day at lunchtime at work.
Most people do.
Yeah, most people do.
But what I wanted to bring up is during the first George Bush election with Al Gore, you said if you want $2.50 a gallon gas prices, you go ahead and elect Al Gore.
And if you checked in the EIB archives, you'll find, I'm telling the truth, and we sure got a lot more to have with our buddy George right now.
This year's on George H.W. Bush.
Yeah.
Okay, so what you're you're trying to make what point?
What point I'm trying to make is I think our president, which I have great respect for, should have fought harder to get these energy policies, so we ain't paying this.
Hey, look, you know something?
He has tried.
Everybody's tried.
As a registered Republican, which you can't be, or you would not have made this call.
If you were a registered Republican, and if you listen to me every day at lunch, you would know that Bush has offered energy policy plan after energy policy plan dead on arrival.
The Democrats have run Congress, haven't done anything with it.
He's tried, I don't know how many times, to open up a bunch of oil fields, Alaska and other places for drilling.
Ain't no way isn't going to happen.
It's not just Democrats in Washington, too.
Local state legislatures and governors who are all impacted by the environmental movement.
So, this is not something that's strictly Bush's fault.
I wish I had more time in this segment to deal with this Al Gore business because what you're trying to say here is that, look, we got a Bush and we got $3 a gallon gasoline, and we had Clinton and Gore, and we didn't have gasoline priced that high.
You're going back, what is it, 15 years and trying to draw economic comparisons worldwide in an oil business, which you can't make.
Registered Republican, you cannot be.
It's open line Friday on Wednesday.
That means when we go to the phones, you own the show.
Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things I care about because it's my show.
I'm a benevolent dictator and all that, but there's no First Amendment here.
Nobody has the right to speak nor be heard other than me.
But on Friday, throw that out.
Take a great career risk, letting rank amateurs determine what we talk about.
Lovable and adorable rank amateurs, but compared to me, highly trained broadcast specialist, and this is how it should be.
You are rank amateurs.
What makes the open line Friday on Wednesday show so much fun?
John in Crossville, Tennessee, your next, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
This makes my day.
I've been with you for 20 years, and I've been through your cochlear implant.
I've been through your drug problem.
And I prayed for you absolutely every day.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I love you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Now get back to what I wanted to talk about.
Oh, there was more?
That's a good question.
Oh, my gosh, I've got so much.
I could fill up a whole program with you and listen to you for 20 years, and I love you.
But getting back to what I was going to talk about, in 1958, when I got out of the military, I saw that Social Security was a problem, and I attempted to get out of that on my own.
I tried with my employer.
I tried with the government to get out of it.
I was mandated.
I was mandated to stick with Social Security.
Everybody is a what did that tell you?
That told me that they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
No, no, no, no.
It should have told you that they knew exactly what they were doing.
If Social Security were ever optional, if you could pull out of it and say, you know what, I don't like the deal.
I'd rather save my own money and put it somewhere if it's going to grow faster than it does with you guys.
They would not let you do it.
Our grandfather tried to give his Social Security checks back when he turned 65 or whenever he started.
They wouldn't let him.
They wouldn't even let him get the checks back, much less opt out of the program because the purpose of Social Security from its inception was not Social Security.
It was a tax increase, and it was designed politically to see to it that as many people would vote Democrat for as many years as possible.
It was to create dependency.
It was to create among as many people as possible total dependency on government for their retirement.
And they couldn't let people opt out of it for two reasons.
One, they wouldn't raise the money they needed to raise because we've gotten to the point now, and everybody knew this was going to happen, where people who are receiving Social Security are now getting money far beyond what they contributed.
Right now, it takes the Social Security taxes of four workers to provide the benefits for one retiree.
And that burden's going to shift to three and then to two.
And in 30 years, you might have a tax rate of 70% just to support Social Security if they don't change it.
The second reason they didn't let people opt out of it is because they knew that some people wouldn't save on their own, and they retire with nothing, and then they've got a problem.
And they used that, by the way, as a sales technique.
Well, don't worry about saving it on your own.
You know, you probably have good intentions doing that, but you're not.
You don't, then what are you going to do?
And the threat was, if you're not in the program, we can't help you.
It was an FDR brilliant move, actually, for the Democrat Party from the get-go.
Brief timeout, folks.
Be right back after this.
Having fun up there, Mike?
We're going to get this now on every break.
No answer from the broadcast engineer.
All right.
Another excursion, another exciting hour into broadcast excellence is over.
The hour soon to be hermetically sealed sent by Armored Courier to the secret warehouse that's housing artifacts for the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
We have one more hour to go on our pre-Thanksgiving Day show, and we'll read the truth, the true story of Thanksgiving from my second book in the final half hour.
I've got some audio soundbites of Hillary and Obama, and a couple other things here in the stack of stuff I want to talk to you about.
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